Spitalfields Market

Spitalfields Market is a traders' market in the Spitalfields neighborhood of London, England. It opened in 1666, after the Great Fire of London, and it was granted a royal charter by King Charles II of England in 1682. In the mid-1700s, the market became popular among Irish weavers, and, from the 1880s to 1970s, Spitalfields became a major Jewish ethnic enclave due to Jewish emigration from Russia, Poland, and the Netherlands. Since the 1970s, a Bangladeshi community has flourished near the market.